Learning and Trust – thoughts from research
Education is an exchange, but not a monetary one in most circumstances. Instead of exchanging money, a symbolic representation of labour...
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Oct 13, 20175 min read
The Rooted in Reading Award and student attainment
The Rooted in Reading Award passport was originally designed to be reading’s equivalent to the Duke of Edinburgh Award. The tasks are...
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Oct 11, 20143 min read
Stereotypes of Teaching – thoughts on chapter 3 of Professional Capital by Hargreaves and Full
This chapter attacks, with considerable vigour, many of the sacred cows of school improvement. Books with titles like Teach like a...
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Oct 4, 20143 min read
Competing Views of Teaching – thoughts on chapter 2 of Professional Capital by Hargreaves and
This chapter extends the dichotomy established in chapter 1 between the business capital view of teaching and the professional capital...
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Jan 12, 20132 min read
Rooted in Reading Teacher’s Passport
Initially I didn’t really want to write a separate reading passport for teachers but following discussions with staff at Bishop...
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Five easy ways to get started with Rooted in Reading
Uprooted by Su Blackwell, currently on show at the National Centre for Craft and Design in Sleaford. Reading can have a transformational...
Joe Wicks, Functional Fluency and teacher observation
This blog was written a while back and then forgotten about. Since then Functional Fluency International has developed considerably. It...
The 15 Rooted in Reading Principles
Back in November 2010 I was invited to go down to London to lead a research seminar at the DfE on the reading for pleasure promotion...
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